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Publication Account
Date 1990
Event ID 1018543
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018543
This was founded near to the Stablegreen Port during the episcopacy of Andrew Muirhead sometime before 1464.1 Before 1531 it was extended to an adjoining building, the back almshouse.2 The bishop was the patron of St Nicholas almshouse or hospital (the fore almshouse), and the town of the back almshouse.3 By 1567 twelve poor men were housed in the fore almshouse and four in the back. By 1600 the back almshouse was ruinous and the building material ordered to be removed but St Nicholas Hospital functioned until the 18th century.4
A chapel was connected with the hospital and has been described as built of fine ashlar work in Gothic style, a buttress between each window and Bishop Muirhead's arms over the door.5 In 1471
manse was built immediately to the north for the chaplain of the hospital, which became known as Provands Lordship (see above).
By 1778 it was reported that 'all the old houses which originally belonged to the hospital (except the chapel) have for many years been totally ruinous and uninhabited’.6
Notes
1. Cowan and Easson, 180.
2. Ibid.
3. Glas. Recs., ii, 155.
4. Renwick, Memorials, 261; Cowan and Easson, 180.
5. Renwick, Memorials, 260.
6. Ibid , 262.
Information from ‘Historic Glasgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1990).
